# Landscape with a Windmill, in The Dutch Golden Age

Jacob van Ruisdael painted this in 1646, aged 18. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Even this early work by Jacob van Ruisdael—painted while he was still a teenager—shows his unique approach to landscape that made the simplest motifs seem grand and heroic. Dark forms are massed in the foreground, creating a stark contrast to the expansive, sunlit plain at left.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1646
- Medium: oil on wood
- Dimensions: Framed: 69 x 88.5 x 4 cm (27 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 49.5 x 68.5 cm (19 1/2 x 26 15/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.19
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jacob van Ruisdael](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jacob-van-ruisdael), Dutch, 1628/29–1682

Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the seventeenth century.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Jacob van Ruisdael](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/jacob-van-ruisdael?hang=750) (4 works)
- [More paintings of the 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-17?hang=750) (168 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=750) (91 works)

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